Only an implementation issue made me sad: a brute force method needed to force barewords into subs, resolved by an imported AUTOLOAD. It seems like Ruby got the upper hand over Perl this time. See the explanation at a node I wrote at PerlMonks: AUTOLOAD, overload, and Roman numerals for Perl.

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